Personal website. Live at https://siddharth7113.github.io.

Built on Jekyll. The original scaffolding came from the al-folio template — kept for the typography and the publication/project pieces, then trimmed down to what I actually use.

The repo ships a Docker Compose setup so I don't have to keep a working Ruby toolchain on every machine.

docker compose pull
docker compose up

Then open http://localhost:8080. Live reload is wired up on port 35729; edits to markdown/liquid files re-render without a restart.

If imagemagick errors show up the first time, it's because the image variants haven't been generated yet — they'll appear after the first build.

• _pages/ — top-level pages (about, projects, books, blog, …).
• _posts/ — blog posts.
• _projects/ — project cards rendered on /projects/.
• _books/ — books I'm reading. Each book is _books/<slug>.md (the index page) plus a directory _books/<slug>/ch-XX.md per chapter note. Layouts live in _layouts/book.liquid and _layouts/book_chapter.liquid.
• _news/ — short announcement items for the about page.
• assets/img/ — images. Cover images for books go under assets/img/books/.
• _config.yml — site config. Footer text, social handles, collection setup, scholar bibliography settings, all here.

1. Create _books/<slug>.md with front matter:

   ---
   layout: book
   title: <Book title>
   slug: <slug> # must match the directory name below
   is_book: true
   author: <author>
   status: currently reading # or: paused | finished
   category: technical # optional, free-form
   cover: /assets/img/books/<slug>.jpg
   description: <one-line blurb>
   ---

2. Drop the cover image at assets/img/books/<slug>.jpg.

3. For each chapter note, create _books/<slug>/ch-XX.md:

   ---
   layout: book_chapter
   title: "Chapter X — <name>"
   book: <slug>
   order: X
   description: <one-line summary>
   ---
   
   ... your markdown notes ...

The book page auto-generates a table of contents from any chapter file with book: <slug>, sorted by order.

GitHub Actions deploys to GitHub Pages on push to main (see .github/workflows/).